files-maven-plugin

A Maven plugin for copying, moving and deleting files and directories

The files-maven-plugin is a Maven plugin which copies, moves or deletes files and directories.

What file-maven-plugin will provide:

• Copying of files and directories
• Moving of files and directories
• Deletion of files and directories

What files-maven-plugin will NOT provide:

• Complete file management
• Renaming of files and directories
• A replacement for Ant or Gradle

The files-maven-plugin is written in Java, is very simplistic and does not very much.

Implementation details

• Java 8
• All leaf classes are final.
• Useful toString methods

Information

• Maven site: https://ltennstedt.github.io/files-maven-plugin/index.html
• Maven plugin docs: https://ltennstedt.github.io/files-maven-plugin/plugin-info.html

files-maven-plugin is open source and free software and is licensed under the permissive Apache License.

files-maven-plugin is still in a very early state and a work in progress.

Building

Prerequisites

• JDK
• Maven
• Git (optional)

git clone https://github.com/ltennstedt/files-maven-plugin.git
cd files-maven-plugin
mvn install

This will clone the remote Git repository, build files-maven-plugin and install it into your local Maven repository.

Developing

The code formatting follows loosely the Google Java style guide found here on GitHub.

Why files-maven-plugin?

I searched for a Maven plugin which was able to copy some directories and I could not simply find one. Possible solutions were the use of the Maven Antrun Plugin, Ant or Gradle but none of them made me happy because I don't want to change the build automation tool or integrate a second one me into my Maven projects so I decided to start writing this plugin.

Why AssertJ?

I find its assertions more readable in comparison to JUnit and Hamcrest and the fluent assertions are more IDE friendly.

Notes

• Please consider using free software
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Thanks to

• Oracle for the JVM, Java and OpenJDK
• the Eclipse Foundation for the Eclipse IDE
• Google for Error Prone
• the Apache Software Foundation for Maven, Commons Lang, Commons IO and the Apache License
• Joel Costigliola for AssertJ
• the JUnit team for JUnit
• Linus Torvalds for Git
• the developers of Checkstyle
• the developers of SpotBugs
• the developers of PMD
• the developers of JaCoCo and EclEmma
• GitHub for GitHub
• Travis CI for Travis CI
• Codecov for Codecov
• Stack Exchange for Stack Overflow
• Shields.io for Shields.io
• Judd Vinet and Aaron Griffin for Arch Linux